Nguzunguzu

War is the most horrible drama of human kind. Yet the noises of war – from swords clanging to modern machine guns – have fascinated musicians for centuries. We asked international musicians how to make a war audible. A virtual debate.

By sampling footage from contemporary sci-fi and action films, the video «Mecha» by Nguzunguzu appears to take the same delight in the spectacle of combat as the Italian Futurists did at the beginning of the last century.

Media converts real wars into long distance entertainment. But the condition of war and the fantasy of it belong to the same articulation of a collective desire. It’s this what the energetic US clubmusic duo Nguzunguzu is using as sonic elements in their music.